John Preston Searle

New Brunswick Theological Seminary's faculty c. 1904 (left to right), John Preston Searle, John Howard Raven, Samuel Merrill Woodbridge, William Henry Steele Demarest, John Hamilton Gillespie, and Ferdinand Schureman Schenck Rev. John Preston Searle, D.D. (September 12, 1854 - July 26, 1922) was a U.S. minister and educator in the Reformed Church in America. Searle was the James Suydam Professor of Systematic Theology at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, New Jersey (1893-1922), as well as President of the Faculty (1902–22). He was born in Schuylerville, New York and died in Cragsmoor, New York.

Biography He was the son of the Reverend Samuel T. Searle. Not only his father, but his uncles as well, Stephen Searle and Jeremiah Searle, and his younger brother, Edward V. V. Searle, were ministers of the Reformed Church. Searle married Susan Bovey in 1882. He had at least two sons, Robert W. Searle and Raymond B. Searle.